Subject:Editing question

Posted by: FlashGordon

Date:12/10/2012 8:44:37 PM

In Vegas I can trim a section out of a track or a number of tracks and hit Control-Shift-F and everything to the right of what I trimmed moves over in sync to where I trimmed. Is there a similar function / shortcut for ACID that will do the same thing that I'm missing?

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:12/11/2012 8:37:14 PM

Not sure. But I do wish that Acid (A8 - haa !) had all the nice little event alignment indicators and workflow that Vegas has. So quite possible the CTRL-SHIFT-F is not implemented.

geoff

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/12/2012 12:47:32 PM

You mean ripple editing?

If it's not enabled: Options > Ripple Edits on the menu bar (Ctrl + L is the keyboard shortcut).

Click the Time Selection Tool. Go to town. Remember that the conventions for selecting and de-selecting events applies here as well as where the Loop Region lies.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: FlashGordon

Date:12/12/2012 8:08:38 PM

I can't seem to make "ripple editing" do anything. I don't think the function I'm looking for is "ripple editing". In Vegas if I have six tracks or two tracks or one track, it doesn't matter, and I want to trim out measure 9-15 for example in all the tracks I just highlight the tracks, hit "S" for "Split" at measure 9 for example (the start of the section I want to edit out) & then do the same at measure 15 & delete all those events between 9 and 15, then hit Control-Shift-F everything to the right of the edited section moves to measure 9 together. That's a great function that I hope is hiding someone in ACID that I don't know about.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Steven Myers

Date:12/12/2012 8:35:21 PM

It's not hiding.
Try the manual.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: FlashGordon

Date:12/12/2012 8:54:31 PM

The manual? I'd do that if I knew what the function was called. Have you got both Vegas and ACID? I know how it works in Vegas but I have not figured it out in ACID primarily because I don't know what the function is called.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Steven Myers

Date:12/12/2012 10:12:41 PM

in the manual, search the word "ripple."

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/14/2012 1:31:42 PM

The Time Selection Tool *must* be active in order for any ripple editing to occur.

You don't have to split event or anything; just select the area using the Loop Region , then select or deselect anything under the Loop Region you want to include/exclude. When you do something such as press delete, ACID automatically splits the event at the in and out points of the Loop Region and any content to the right scoots over to the left.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: FlashGordon

Date:12/16/2012 11:14:14 AM

Hmm. This response of yours is the most helpful so far but I'm still not able to do it. My "time selection tool" isn't on my shortcut bar so I didn't know how to find that but I f found it so I tried to do this.
I did what you said starting with Control L to enable Ripple Edits.
1. Set the Loop over the section of the song I wanted to delete
2. Activated the "time selection tool"
3. Clicked "Delete" and that section of the song was deleted but the content to the right did not scoot over.
I must be missing something. Another setting perhaps?

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: FlashGordon

Date:12/16/2012 12:02:52 PM

On further attempts I find that does work some of the time. I hit "Control L" to enable Ripple Edits, I activate the Time Selection Tool and if I hit Cut from the Edit menu or Delete from the keyboard or Control X from the keyboard it seems to work. If I try to hit Control C from the keyboard it does nothing but it still seems to be hit and miss.

Subject:RE: Editing question

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/16/2012 3:12:37 PM

In a default ACID Pro UI setup, the Time Selection Tool is there; it should be between the Envelope Tool and the Groove Tool.

If it's not there, go to Options > Customize Toolbar on the menu bar.

Ctrl + L toggles ripple editing. You can, of course, tell if it's on denoted by the blue square around its icon in the expanded menu under Options.

I should have been clearer about the time selection: It *must* be active in order for anything to occur. An active time selection paints the entire selection a shade of light blue.

Also, remember that the standard conventions for selecting elements in Windows applies here. e.g., If an event is selected under that time selection, only that event will be affected.

In that case, make absolutely sure to make your time selection *first*, then hold down Ctrl or Shift and make your event selections. Otherwise, if you simply click an event *after* you have made a time selection, the time selection is canceled (which may explain why sometimes nothing happens).

Another tip: If you already have a time selection and just want to select everything under that time selection, press Ctrl + Shift + A, which will deselect everything but what's under the time selection.

(You can also use this shortcut to clear any selections made while in standard editing mode. This includes everything; tracks selected, events selected, etc.)